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From The Culture

Dr. Marcus Collins & Amanda Slavin

From The Culture is a brand new podcast from best selling authors and marketing experts, Dr Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin. The podcast explores the power and importance of culture and how it can shape human behaviour. Marcus (the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade) is an award winning marketeer/cultural translator who has spearheaded campaigns for Beyonce alongside successful collaborations with global brands such as Nike and Adidas. Amanda is a bestselling author, educator, and engagement architect expert who is dedicated to shaping the future of engagement. She has also worked with global giants such as Coco-Cola, Google and HubSpot and has also helped to explore and define recognised engagement frameworks that can be applied across industries and sectors.

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S1 · E41
Thursday · 1 hr 4 min
S1, E41 - How We Show Up with Guy Winch
Rejection, loneliness, heartbreak, stress, and disappointment don’t stay contained to one part of our lives. They shape how we think, how we relate to other people, and how present we’re able to be. Dr. Guy Winch is a psychologist, bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading voices on emotional health. Through books including Emotional First Aid, How to Fix a Broken Heart, and Mind Over Grind, he has helped millions of people understand how to care for the emotional injuries we all experience. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the emotional lives we bring into everything we do. They talk about rejection and rumination, loneliness and heartbreak, the ways work follows us home, and how learning to care for ourselves changes the way we show up for the people around us.
S1 · E40
October 8 · 1 hr 14 min
S1, E40 - Don’t Finish the Story Too Soon with Dhar Mann
Success rarely follows the version of the story we imagined at the beginning. Sometimes growth means persevering. Sometimes it means letting go. And sometimes it means creating an entirely new table when the one you were trying to reach no longer fits who you are becoming. Dhar Mann is an entrepreneur, creator, and founder of Dhar Mann Studios, one of the world’s largest digital storytelling companies. His path has included extraordinary success, major failure, reinvention, and the experience of building again from moments that could have looked like endings. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore how we know when to keep going and when to release an old version of the dream, what failure can reveal about who we are becoming, and how our definition of success changes over time. Because sometimes the most important thing we can do is keep going. And sometimes it is realizing we are allowed to build a different table.
S1 · E39
October 1 · 1 hr 8 min
S1, E39 - Who We Become Together with Adam 'Smiley' Poswolsky
Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a bestselling author and speaker whose work explores friendship, belonging, purpose, and human connection, including Friendship in the Age of Loneliness and The Quarter-Life Breakthrough. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the relationship between connection and agency. They talk about the people and communities that help us trust ourselves, what it means to create the conditions for someone else to grow, and how workplaces and relationships can expand our sense of what we are capable of becoming. Because agency may begin within us, but the conditions that allow it to grow are often created together.
S1 · E38
September 24 · 58 min
S1, E38 - Who Gets to Shape the Future? with Jennifer Kotler Clarke
Children are already forming opinions, making choices, creating culture, and developing their sense of who they are through the media and technology surrounding them. Jennifer Kotler Clarke is a developmental psychologist and leader whose career has spanned Sesame Workshop and Google, working at the intersection of children, media, learning, and technology. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the media and technology diet surrounding kids, the role those experiences play in developing agency, and what changes when children are treated as active participants in shaping the world around them. They talk about understanding the whole child behind the digital experience, creating healthier agreements with technology, and designing a future that makes room for kids’ ideas, perspectives, choices, and voices. Because the future is already being shaped. The question is whether kids get to help shape it.
S1 · E37
September 17 · 1 hr 2 min
S1, E37 - Seeing People Clearly with Heather Malenshek
The way we understand ourselves shapes the way we understand everyone around us. Heather Malenshek is a global marketing and brand leader whose career has spanned Harley-Davidson, Land O’Lakes, and some of the world’s most community-driven organizations. Across those experiences, she has worked at the intersection of identity, belonging, purpose, and the stories people tell about who they are. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore perspective, compassion, and the ability to see the whole person in front of us. They talk about how self-awareness changes the way we lead, how different experiences shape what people see and believe, and why curiosity about another person’s perspective can transform relationships, organizations, and culture. What becomes possible when we understand ourselves well enough to see other people more clearly?
S1 · E36
September 10 · 1 hr 14 min
S1, E36 - How Relationships Shape Us with Jackie Jantos and Tamika Young
Relationships shape how we see ourselves, how we lead, what we build, and the cultures we create. Jackie Jantos is CEO of Hinge, and Tamika Young is Hinge’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Their own relationship began years earlier at Spotify, where they helped build some of the brand’s most defining cultural moments, before choosing to work together again at Hinge. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore what makes relationships worth investing in. Jackie and Tamika talk about trust, friendship, leadership, building with the people around us, and how those same principles shape the products and communities we create. What becomes possible when we treat relationships as the foundation of culture?
S1 · E35
September 3 · 1 hr 11 min
S1, E35 - The Power of the Turnaround with Grace Dolan
A turnaround begins with seeing clearly. What is working. What is available. What is asking to change. And where the potential already exists. Grace Dolan has built a career transforming businesses and brands across Sharp, Samsung, Frontier Communications, and Johnson & Johnson. Her approach starts with truth, curiosity, and a willingness to put everything on the table, then look closely at the strengths, people, and possibilities already present. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Grace to explore what it really means to create a turnaround, in business and in life. They talk about the courage to see things as they are, the power of asking better questions, how leaders recognize potential before the outcome is visible, and what becomes possible when we build from our strengths. At the heart of the conversation is a bigger idea: transformation begins when we can see the potential in what is already in front of us.
S1 · E34
August 27 · 1 hr 2 min
S1, E34 - From Background to Center Stage with Connor Lim
Dancers have powered some of the biggest moments in music, entertainment, fashion, and social media. Their movement travels across culture, often reaching millions before audiences ever learn the names of the people who created it. Connor Lim is helping change that. As Co-Founder, CEO, and League Commissioner of the International Dance League, Connor is building a professional sports structure around dance, with contracts, teams, standings, championships, global broadcasts, and a media rights partnership with ESPN. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore what happens when dancers move from the background to center stage. They talk about how incentives shape behavior, why credit determines who gets to participate in the value culture creates, and what professional sports can teach us about recognition, investment, fandom, and ownership. At the center of the conversation is a bigger question: what changes when the people creating culture receive the credit, structure, and opportunity their influence deserves?
S1 · E33
August 20 · 59 min
S1, E33 - Do It Scared: The Lessons That Shape Who We Become with Margot Machol Bisnow
What gives someone the courage to pursue an idea before they know where it will lead? Margot Machol Bisnow became fascinated by that question and went looking for answers in an unexpected place: the childhoods of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Through conversations with founders and their families, she discovered recurring lessons about curiosity, independence, resilience, passion, and the power of having someone believe in you. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Margot to explore the environments that shape us long before we enter the workplace. They talk about raising entrepreneurial kids, learning to trust yourself, giving people room to find their own path, and developing the courage to move forward even when you’re scared. It’s a conversation about parenting, entrepreneurship, and ultimately something much bigger: how we create the conditions for people to believe in what they might become.
S1 · E32
August 13 · 1 hr 7 min
S1, E32 - The Power of Inconvenience with Anne Morriss and Frances Frei
What if the things that interrupt us, frustrate us, and make our work harder are also showing us exactly where our attention is needed? Anne Morriss and Frances Frei have spent their careers helping leaders and organizations navigate change, build trust, and solve hard problems. They are the co-authors of Move Fast and Fix Things and Unleashed, and the hosts of TED’s Fixable, where they explore what becomes possible when we believe our biggest challenges can actually be solved. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Anne and Frances to explore the power of inconvenience and what our problems can reveal about our organizations, our leadership, and ourselves. Together, they talk about trust, change, responsibility, and how leaders can create cultures with the courage and capacity to face what needs attention. Because inconvenience can be more than an interruption. It can be information about where we’re ready to grow.
S1 · E31
August 6 · 1 hr 3 min
S1, E31 - Seen. Heard. Understood. Served. with Louis Carr
Throughout his career, Louis Carr has believed that the strongest institutions do more than entertain, inform, or educate. They create spaces where people feel seen, heard, understood, and ultimately served. That philosophy has shaped nearly four decades at BET, where Louis helped build one of the most influential cultural institutions in America and now serves as its President. Along the way, he has helped redefine the relationship between Black culture, media, and business, earning recognition as an inductee into the Advertising Hall of Fame. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin explore the relationship between service and leadership, culture and community, and representation and responsibility. Together, they discuss why lasting institutions are built on trust, how culture creates belonging, and what it means to steward an institution while continuing to move it forward. At the heart of the conversation is a simple idea: the places that shape us most deeply are the ones where we feel seen, heard, understood, and served.
S1 · E30
July 30 · 56 min
S1, E30 - The Power of Cultural Intimacy with Arturo Nuñez
Before Arturo Nuñez ever built brands, culture built him. Growing up in Harlem, Arturo was surrounded by communities, identities, music, food, style, and stories that shaped how he understood people, belonging, and connection. Those early experiences became a foundation he would carry throughout his career. That understanding would eventually take him inside some of the world’s most influential brands, including Nike, Apple, the NBA, Coca-Cola, and Nubank. Today, he’s bringing that same perspective to hospitality, creating restaurants and spaces where people can gather, connect, and feel part of something. In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Arturo to explore the power of cultural intimacy and what becomes possible when we understand people, communities, and culture deeply.
S1 · E29
July 23 · 59 min
S1, E29 - Why We Need More “F It” Energy with Sam Rapoport
Today on From the Culture, we're exploring what it really takes to change a system. Our guest is Sam Rapoport, Senior Advisor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the NFL and one of the driving forces behind opening new pathways for women in professional football. Through initiatives like the Women's Forum and the NFL Women's Careers in Football program, she's helped redefine who gets to lead, coach, and shape one of the world's most influential sports. Today's conversation goes far beyond football. We talk through how Sam went from feeling like she could never fit into society in her queer youth to being a champion for women in one of the most powerful male-dominated cultural arenas in America. We find out how she learned to say “F it” in the face of potential opposition, we explore how cultures evolve, why representation alone isn't enough, and what it takes to build environments where people don't just gain access—they truly belong. This is a conversation about leadership, opportunity, and the cultures that shape the future. Here's our conversation with Sam Rapoport.
S1 · E28
July 16 · 1 hr 5 min
S1, E28 - The Radical Entitlement of Knowing Your Worth with Francesca Hogi
Today on From the Culture, we're exploring one of the most fundamental human needs: connection. Our guest is Francesca Hogi—coach, speaker, mediator, former corporate lawyer, and author of How to Find True Love: Unlock Your Romantic Flow and Create Lasting Relationships. Through her work, she's helped thousands of people build healthier relationships by first understanding themselves. But today's conversation goes far beyond romantic relationships. We explore what trust, vulnerability, and belonging can teach us about leadership, teamwork, and workplace culture. Because the same skills that help us build meaningful relationships at home are often the ones that help us create healthier organizations at work. This is a conversation about human connection, emotional intelligence, and the cultures we create together. Here's our conversation with Francesca Hogi.
S1 · E27
July 9 · 1 hr 4 min
S1, E27 - Stay In Your Lane with Mathew Knowles
Today on From the Culture, we're asking a simple question: Where does greatness come from? Our guest is Mathew Knowles: music executive, entrepreneur, educator, author, and the visionary behind one of the most successful music careers of our time. For decades, he's developed talent, built high-performing teams, and helped shape moments that have influenced culture around the world. But this conversation goes beyond music. We explore how leaders cultivate excellence, the cultures that allow people to thrive, and why the environments we create at work often determine the impact we have far beyond it. Here's our conversation with Mathew Knowles.
S1 · E26
July 2 · 1 hr 6 min
S1, E26 - Vibe Founding and the Irreducible Human Skills with Jim Hornthal
What does it take to build something people actually want in the age of AI? And as technology lowers the barriers to starting a company, what becomes even more important than the idea itself? Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with entrepreneur, investor, and UC Berkeley Haas Lester Center Fellow Jim Hornthal to explore how founders can move beyond hype and build organizations that genuinely solve problems. Together, they unpack the mindset behind successful entrepreneurship, why curiosity and resilience matter more than certainty, and how AI is reshaping everything from innovation to leadership. From founder psychology and organizational culture to evidence-based innovation and the future of work, this conversation offers a thoughtful look at what it takes to create products, teams, and companies that people truly value in a rapidly changing world.
S1 · E25
June 25 · 1 hr 13 min
S1, E25 - Who Decides Potential with Gil Winch
What if the people most companies overlook are actually their greatest untapped source of talent? Dr. Gil Winch, founder of a call center, Call Yachol, that employs people with disabilities and others often excluded from the workforce, joins Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin to discuss belonging, culture, and why designing workplaces around human potential can create extraordinary results. Through powerful stories and practical insights, he makes the case that inclusion isn't just the right thing to do. It's a competitive advantage.
S1 · E24
June 18 · 1 hr
S1, E24 - Strike While It's Hot with Jim McKelvey
This week, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin are joined by entrepreneur, craftsman, and Square co-founder Jim McKelvey. Through stories from his life as a glassblower and startup founder, Jim shares lessons on risk-taking, trust, innovation, and what it means to build something that can withstand pressure without losing its integrity. From unbreakable glass to billion-dollar businesses, the conversation explores how great teams create safety for experimentation, why action matters more than perfection, and how purpose can evolve after success.
S1 · E23
June 11 · 51 min
S1, E23 - Building Community Through Empathy with Kathryn Petralia
What if the most important leadership skill isn't strategy, charisma, or vision, but empathy? This week, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage, a data-driven company bought by American Express that provides new lending opportunities to underserved communities. They explore how better understanding people’s needs became the foundation of a huge business. Together, they unpack cognitive empathy, building community culture at the office, hiring for self-awareness, and how the best leaders learn to see the world through someone else's perspective. Plus, Kathryn shares her personal philosophy for success.
S1 · E22
June 4 · 1 hr 11 min
S1, E22 - What If Success Isn't Enough? with Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie built one of the world's most influential purpose-driven brands: TOMS. Yet after years of success and accompanying mental health struggles, he found himself asking a difficult question: Is this all there is? In this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin talk with the industry-shaping entrepreneur about ambition, mental health, conscious capitalism, and the challenge of defining success on your own terms. Blake shares what he learned from his struggles with depression, why achievement alone is never enough, and how leaders can build lives and organizations that stay aligned with their values. A candid conversation about purpose, fulfillment, and what it really means to be enough.

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